In the 2008 season, Newton was was injured in the team's first game and would have to redshirt his sophomore season. While he was taking time off due to his injury, Newton stole a laptop from a fellow Florida student. When the police came to investigate, he tossed the laptop out of his room and it was eventually found in a nearby dumpster.
Inevitably facing suspension, Newton announced his intentions to transfer to Blinn College, a junior college in Texas, to continue his football career. He led the Buccaneers to a championship in his only season with the school, and was eligible to transfer back to the NCAA. Newton's top choices were Auburn Tigers and Mississippi State Bulldogs and, after consideration, chose to go to Auburn to play for head coach Gene Chisik in 2010.
Newton impressed the football world immediately. With his large stature, great throwing arm and the ability to make exciting plays, he became extremely popular in the blink of an eye. As the Tigers kept on winning, Newton's Heisman stock kept rising and Auburn continued to climb the rankings.
However, it did not take long for rumors of illegal activity to arise. It was reported that a recruiter from Mississippi State heard a demand from Cam's father, Cecil Newton, that it would take $100k-$180k for Cam to transfer to the Mississippi State Bulldogs from Blinn College. Newton went to Auburn, so he did not get this money, but if Cecil wanted money for his son to play for Mississippi State, the NCAA wanted to make sure Auburn did not pay him to go there.
Daddy knows best!
Auburn held strong on the fact that they did not know of his father's negotiations with Mississippi State and that they did not pay Cam to play football. At the time, Auburn was undefeated and heading to the SEC title game. Newton was the favorite to win the Heisman and one more win would put the Tigers in the National Championship game.
After it was confirmed that Cecil wanted Cam to get paid to play at Mississippi State, Auburn banned his father from any future involvement in the program. They also declared Cam ineligible, but issued a plea for reinstatement by the NCAA. The NCAA obliged because there was no evidence that Auburn knew of any of Cecil's actions during the recruiting process.
Newton went on to win the Heisman Trophy and lead the Tigers to a National Championship victory. He was chosen #1 overall by the Carolina Panthers in the 2011 NFL Draft. However, his suspected violations are currently under review and who knows if Auburn will have to vacate its National Championship in the future, or if Newton will have to return his Heisman Trophy?
Worth it?
Worth it.
Hahahahaha...So many blatant factual errors in this post it's hard to know where to begin. A hilarious joke.
ReplyDeletelol what a joke, none of these facts have been checked. do some real research.
ReplyDeleteActually if you had done any research this is just a rehash of very, very old news. Try for something new. Like where is the Auburn bagman, did Jimmy Rains and Pat Dye cough up the money for Papa Newton and where did the $ that supposedly was paid to Newtons go, if you want something new and fresh. They have been saying this for months and nothing has come of it yet.
ReplyDeleteWhat exactly on my post is a factual error? I am definitely not an expert on the subject, but I feel when like I read a few articles online and created this post that all of my facts were correct. I am NOT trying to say that you all are wrong and I am right. I would actually like to find out what I have on here that is wrong. Yes, as the third comment said, most of this this is old news and I did not cover much of what has happened recently. But seriously I would like to know if any of my facts are actually false so I can edit this post and know for future reference.
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